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Embracing Your Difficult Friendships
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Ambrose (337-397 A.D.), Doctor of the Church, Bishop of Milan, confessor to St. Augustine, and friend to St. Augustine’s mother, St. Monica. For many of us...
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Friendship and Frivolity
For those of us who scribble, today is an important date in the calendar for it is the Feast of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), patron saint of writers and journalists. Yet before you tune out,...
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Media and the Promise of Friendship
With the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (“CPAC”) about to get underway here in Washington, many of those in attendance will have their first opportunity to meet in real life those whom...
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Zealous and Active Friendships Through New Media
If you have visited this site before then you know that periodically I like to take the time to encourage my readers to get involved in new media, beyond simple passive engagement. I do so not because...
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Bring Warmth to Someone
It is difficult to say exactly what it is about the autumn that makes many of us go into a kind of social hibernation. It may be the angle of the sun as it skims lower along the horizon which reminds...
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The Courtier Pays a Call
Last evening I visited some good friends after work for a couple of hours, having a drink outside on their balcony and enjoying both the conversation and summer-like weather. One of the benefits of...
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Saying Farewell: A Friend Ascends Mount Carmel
I write this post with somewhat mixed emotions, because this is probably the last blog post of mine my friend Channing Dale, blogger and hostess of the “This Catholic Life” podcast, will ever read...
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Friends on Earth and Friends Above
Meeting someone in real life whom you’ve been communicating with via social media for ages is something of an odd experience. It’s not quite like meeting an acquaintance with whom you’ve had an...
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New Study: Friends Really Are Like Family
“Friends are the family you choose for yourself,” the old saying goes, but new research indicates that your close friends may be more like your family than you realize. A study published this week in...
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Invisible Friendships
Are you open to forming an intimate relationship with someone whom you don’t get to see? At an after-party during the Catholic New Media Celebration in Atlanta weekend before last, I stood around...
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